Agnes Christina Dodd was born in Edinburgh, Scotland but lived for a time in South Africa, where her father fought in the Boer War.
Her childhood memories of South Africa included using oranges as balls to play games, and the ship's captain on the return trip to Britain, thinking she would not survive the journey, making an offer to her mother to build a coffin for her.
However, survive she did and she spent the remainder of her childhood in Wealdstone, England, where her father became a council member after his retirement from the British Army and later ran an antiques shop. In her teens she had a job at the Kodak Company in London, tinting photographs by hand.
It was her brother, Arthur, who had already emigrated to Canada and taken a homestead in Alberta, who convinced the family to follow him to the Canadian prairies.
The Dodd family embarked for their journey to Canada from Le Havre, France, arriving in Quebec City aboard the 'Sicilian' on August 18th, 1908. From there they took the train to Calgary and then to Innisfail, from whence they hired a wagon to haul the furniture they had brought with them from the United Kingdom cross country to their new homestead in Trochu, as there were no roads in Trochu at that time.
In 1910 she married Aubrey Davies, who had also emigrated from the United Kingdom, and they went on to have four children: James Henry, Katherine Mary, Mary Margaret, and Albert Anthony. Their descendants are in Canada today.
Agnes was known for her stylish dress, which was supplied by Aubrey's family who owned a shoe store in Penryn, Cornwall and would send parcels of shoes and clothes from England. She was once asked by a man who owned a department store in Calgary if she would consider being a model and he was astonished to learn, when she turned him down, that she was a farmer's wife and the mother of four.
Her childhood memories of South Africa included using oranges as balls to play games, and the ship's captain on the return trip to Britain, thinking she would not survive the journey, making an offer to her mother to build a coffin for her.
However, survive she did and she spent the remainder of her childhood in Wealdstone, England, where her father became a council member after his retirement from the British Army and later ran an antiques shop. In her teens she had a job at the Kodak Company in London, tinting photographs by hand.
It was her brother, Arthur, who had already emigrated to Canada and taken a homestead in Alberta, who convinced the family to follow him to the Canadian prairies.
The Dodd family embarked for their journey to Canada from Le Havre, France, arriving in Quebec City aboard the 'Sicilian' on August 18th, 1908. From there they took the train to Calgary and then to Innisfail, from whence they hired a wagon to haul the furniture they had brought with them from the United Kingdom cross country to their new homestead in Trochu, as there were no roads in Trochu at that time.
In 1910 she married Aubrey Davies, who had also emigrated from the United Kingdom, and they went on to have four children: James Henry, Katherine Mary, Mary Margaret, and Albert Anthony. Their descendants are in Canada today.
Agnes was known for her stylish dress, which was supplied by Aubrey's family who owned a shoe store in Penryn, Cornwall and would send parcels of shoes and clothes from England. She was once asked by a man who owned a department store in Calgary if she would consider being a model and he was astonished to learn, when she turned him down, that she was a farmer's wife and the mother of four.
Agnes Christina Dodd was born in Edinburgh, Scotland but lived for a time in South Africa, where her father fought in the Boer War.
Her childhood memories of South Africa included using oranges as balls to play games, and the ship's captain on the return trip to Britain, thinking she would not survive the journey, making an offer to her mother to build a coffin for her.
However, survive she did and she spent the remainder of her childhood in Wealdstone, England, where her father became a council member after his retirement from the British Army and later ran an antiques shop. In her teens she had a job at the Kodak Company in London, tinting photographs by hand.
It was her brother, Arthur, who had already emigrated to Canada and taken a homestead in Alberta, who convinced the family to follow him to the Canadian prairies.
The Dodd family embarked for their journey to Canada from Le Havre, France, arriving in Quebec City aboard the 'Sicilian' on August 18th, 1908. From there they took the train to Calgary and then to Innisfail, from whence they hired a wagon to haul the furniture they had brought with them from the United Kingdom cross country to their new homestead in Trochu, as there were no roads in Trochu at that time.
In 1910 she married Aubrey Davies, who had also emigrated from the United Kingdom, and they went on to have four children: James Henry, Katherine Mary, Mary Margaret, and Albert Anthony. Their descendants are in Canada today.
Agnes was known for her stylish dress, which was supplied by Aubrey's family who owned a shoe store in Penryn, Cornwall and would send parcels of shoes and clothes from England. She was once asked by a man who owned a department store in Calgary if she would consider being a model and he was astonished to learn, when she turned him down, that she was a farmer's wife and the mother of four.
Her childhood memories of South Africa included using oranges as balls to play games, and the ship's captain on the return trip to Britain, thinking she would not survive the journey, making an offer to her mother to build a coffin for her.
However, survive she did and she spent the remainder of her childhood in Wealdstone, England, where her father became a council member after his retirement from the British Army and later ran an antiques shop. In her teens she had a job at the Kodak Company in London, tinting photographs by hand.
It was her brother, Arthur, who had already emigrated to Canada and taken a homestead in Alberta, who convinced the family to follow him to the Canadian prairies.
The Dodd family embarked for their journey to Canada from Le Havre, France, arriving in Quebec City aboard the 'Sicilian' on August 18th, 1908. From there they took the train to Calgary and then to Innisfail, from whence they hired a wagon to haul the furniture they had brought with them from the United Kingdom cross country to their new homestead in Trochu, as there were no roads in Trochu at that time.
In 1910 she married Aubrey Davies, who had also emigrated from the United Kingdom, and they went on to have four children: James Henry, Katherine Mary, Mary Margaret, and Albert Anthony. Their descendants are in Canada today.
Agnes was known for her stylish dress, which was supplied by Aubrey's family who owned a shoe store in Penryn, Cornwall and would send parcels of shoes and clothes from England. She was once asked by a man who owned a department store in Calgary if she would consider being a model and he was astonished to learn, when she turned him down, that she was a farmer's wife and the mother of four.
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